Music Greed update (via TechDirt)• Don’t call your friends with this news, for it might cost them thousands of dollars: If you have a cool song as your wireless ring tone, ASCAP wants you to pay every time your cell phone rings. I am not making this up.

• Big Music has its cake, eats it, and then charges you twice for it: Big Music says music downloads are the same as CDs. If so, why can’t you re-sell you MP3s when you’re finished with them, as you can with used CDs? Here’s why: Digital music equals CDs when it benefits the labels, but they’re not equivalent to CDs when they benefit you. I am not making this up, either.

• Burger King’s ads featuring that guy in the creepy big head mask are genius, but it’s a failure, as McDonalds is still building on its sales lead. I can’t stand either chain, but Burger King’s ads are classic: